Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protect six convoys (the number required to have two of them always at sea)-6 cruisers...
...protect other U. S. ports-3 cruisers...
...safe to prophesy that the United States will never become identified or cooperate with a system for peace based upon, 'pledges to wage war'." Unwilling, in other words, to assist in the forceful prevention of wars under the plans now in effect, the United States still wishes to protect her prosperity by exchanging paper promises of peace with other powers. It is explained that this multilateral pact does not interfore with the League covenant or other alliances, because it an aggressor nation breaks it, the peace is no longer valid, and it may he attacked. What it does...
...streamlined, insulated "cape" over the pilot's cockpit to protect him from the terrific winds of high altitudes...
Answered Myron Timothy Herrick: "I am going to stay here. Somebody ought to stay. . . . Who will protect your monuments, your museums, your libraries? If the city is occupied by the Germans. . . . I ... shall speak in the name of the United States and be assured I shall find means to prevent all massacre and pillage. ... I do not doubt that you will be victorious. Paris, as a centre of art and culture belongs to all the world. . . . France cannot perish...